Penn State Smeal College of Business junior Luke Metaxas made Penn State history recently as the Penn State Board of Trustees met at Penn State Beaver. Metaxas attended his inaugural BOT meeting as the first student-elected student trustee.

Kelsie Abduljawad, of Doha, Qatar, graduated in December 2014 with a master’s degree in educational leadership that she completed online through Penn State World Campus. She has been able to apply what she learned in her coursework to help with decision-making for her school’s accreditation, professional development programming and curriculum.

Nearly 70 Penn State student-athletes have received Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Awards for the 2014-15 academic year. The total of 69 is the school’s second-highest and just shy of last year’s record total.

Mark Bachman and Ethan Miller, both juniors in civil engineering at Penn State, were recently awarded the 2015 Eric J. Gennuso and LeRoy D. (Bud) Loy, Jr. Scholarship from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Pennsylvania.

The friendship of Kenneth Whyel and Adomas Povilianskas formed in high school, endured through their enlistment in the Marine Corps, and is now flourishing at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, where the vets have joined forces to create an award-winning personal training application.

Susan Stanton, a core member of the Penn State Abington community of artists, works fitting women in various stages of breast cancer treatment and recovery with custom prostheses. She finds it a fulfilling way to expand her art practice while helping women heal.

Two recent film-video graduates appreciate the opportunity post-graduate internships offer, with one starting her career path on the East Coast and another getting a similar start toward his dreams on the West Coast.

Penn State coaches and student-athletes in 2014-15 produced another outstanding year, featuring school-record accomplishments in the classroom and adding to its impressive list of national and conference championships.

Math and science have always resonated with Joel Solomon, and that interest led the New Wilmington native to Penn State Behrend. He knew he wanted to pursue research in college, and he could think of no better destination than Behrend.

The goal of the off-campus externship for graduate students in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders is to immerse students in daily routines that allow them the opportunity to work with highly skilled professionals in the field.